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Rickey Layfield, graduate adult and higher education student, discusses the first openly gay NFL footballer, Michael Sam, Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center. Layfield was presenting at Inside the Fishbowl.

Fishbowl shows growing acceptance of LGBT people

By Rhea Riley | April 24, 2014

Inside the Fishbowl, an LGBTQ Awareness Month event, brought to light the LGBT community’s growing acceptance in music and professional sports.The event, hosted by the LGBT and Women’s Resource Center, was held Wednesday in the Heritage Room of the...

Sam bringing much-needed change to NFL

By Steve Shonder | February 10, 2014

The NFL doesn’t have its first openly gay player yet, but it will when the 2014 NFL Draft comes along in early May.Missouri defensive end Michael Sam revealed he is gay in an interview with ESPN’s Outside the Lines and The New York Times Sunday.Sam’s...